Measure for measure Quotes by William Shakespeare

If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms.

— William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

— William Shakespeare

When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.

— William Shakespeare

All surfeit is the father of much fast.

— William Shakespeare

“Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death.”

— William Shakespeare

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

— William Shakespeare

“To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life.”

— William Shakespeare

Every true man's apparel fits your thief.

— William Shakespeare

That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

— William Shakespeare

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.

— William Shakespeare

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

— William Shakespeare

“Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall." - Angelo, Act 2 Scene 1”

— William Shakespeare

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

— William Shakespeare

If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but…

— William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang…

— William Shakespeare

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

— William Shakespeare

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry…

— William Shakespeare

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep…

— William Shakespeare

“From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope of the immoderate use…

— William Shakespeare

Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion…

— William Shakespeare

“For this new-married man approaching here, Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake:…

— William Shakespeare

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

— William Shakespeare

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

— William Shakespeare

“Alack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right; we would and we would not.”

— William Shakespeare